Overview
- The child, identified by police as Suranjana Singh, was found partially hanging inside a wardrobe at her Alipore home and was declared dead at SSKM Hospital.
- Kolkata Police registered an unnatural-death case, questioned her father Bhola Singh and stepmother Pooja, and sealed the residence for forensic examination with a homicide unit involved.
- Initial post-mortem observations indicate antemortem death by hanging described by police as partial hanging, but investigators have not ruled out homicide and await full autopsy and forensic reports.
- Neighbour accounts allege the girl faced routine mistreatment, and local residents assaulted the parents before police intervened and took the couple into custody for questioning.
- Authorities noted the Child Welfare Committee’s involvement, and coverage highlights that the girl was the niece of RG Kar rape-murder convict Sanjay Roy, who is serving a life sentence; relatives say her biological mother died by suicide earlier.